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Category:First Vision
This category includes all articles dealing with the First Vision.
Pages in category "First Vision"
The following 40 pages are in this category, out of 40 total.
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- Joseph Smith's First Vision/Contradiction about knowing all churches were wrong
- Joseph Smith's First Vision/Did Joseph Smith join other churches/Methodist membership procedures
- Joseph Smith's First Vision/Early knowledge of the nature of God
- Joseph Smith's First Vision/Fabricated to give "Godly authority"
- Joseph Smith's First Vision/John Taylor
- Joseph Smith's First Vision/Joining other churches
- Joseph Smith's First Vision/Lack of contemporary Father and Son vision until 1838
- Joseph Smith's First Vision/Lucy Mack Smith and the Presbyterians
- Joseph Smith's First Vision/No mention in non-LDS literature before 1843
- Joseph Smith's First Vision/Persecution
- Joseph Smith's First Vision/Persecution after the vision
- Joseph Smith's First Vision/Personages that appeared referred to by Church leaders as "angels"
- Joseph Smith's First Vision/Published references
- Joseph Smith's First Vision/Religious activity in the Palmyra area in 1820
- Joseph Smith's First Vision/Seldom mentioned in LDS publications before 1877
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- Moroni's visit/Joseph reported "a spirit" visiting in him in 1827
- Moroni's visit/Nephi or Moroni
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/1832/Different age provided
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/1832/Doesn't forbid joining a church
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/1832/Doesn't mention a revival
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/1832/Motivation is different
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/1832/Only one Personage appears
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/1832/Says wicked will be destroyed but 1838 doesn't
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/1835/Mentions "Angels"
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/1838/Account modified to offset leadership crisis
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/Brigham Young said the Lord didn't appear
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/Criticisms/Overview
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/George A. Smith said First Vision was an "angel"
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/George Q. Cannon referred to "angels"
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/Heber C. Kimball's statements regarding the First Vision
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/Oliver Cowdery not aware of First Vision in 1834-35
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/Orson Hyde referred to "angels"
- Multiple accounts of the First Vision/Orson Pratt's statements regarding the First Vision
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- Question: Did Orson Spencer claim in a letter to a non-LDS clergyman that Joseph Smith's "first" spiritual manifestation was of an angel - not the Father and the Son?
- Question: Was Joseph Smith's First Vision Vision set in heaven or on earth?
- Question: When Jesus Christ speaks to Joseph Smith in the 1832 First Vision account, did He say that one receives eternal life regardless of what church they are affiliated with?
- Question: Why doesn't Joseph Smith's 1832 First Vision account mention a "new dispensation"?